'A necessary evil': associations with taking medication and their relationship with medication adherence

Cognitive factors, like beliefs, have been studied extensively as determinants of medication adherence, while affect associated with taking medicines has been studied much less. In the present study (N = 525), we investigated affect by assessing patients' first associations with taking their me...

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Published in:Psychology, health & medicine health & medicine, 2017-12, Vol.22 (10), p.1217-1223
Main Authors: Kleppe, Mieke, Lacroix, Joyca, Ham, Jaap, Midden, Cees
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adherence
Adherents
Adolescent
Adult
Affect
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Association
Associations
beliefs
Cardiovascular Diseases - drug therapy
chronic illness
Diabetes Mellitus - drug therapy
Drugs
Female
Good & evil
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
Humans
Male
Medication
Medication Adherence - psychology
Middle Aged
Negative emotions
Young Adult
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Summary:Cognitive factors, like beliefs, have been studied extensively as determinants of medication adherence, while affect associated with taking medicines has been studied much less. In the present study (N = 525), we investigated affect by assessing patients' first associations with taking their medicines. Results showed that these associations were related to self-reported medication adherence: Patients who associated taking medicines with negative affect were the least adherent, while those associating taking medicines with the need to take medicines were the most adherent. Our results support the idea that affect should be considered an important determinant of adherence.
ISSN:1354-8506
1465-3966
DOI:10.1080/13548506.2017.1316412